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Also, Winky, they are going to send you through the wringer for this, so don't get discouraged.

I had a friend who needed one arbitrary freshman level gen ed class to graduate but in conflicted with her senior seminar. This was her last semester. She would've had to wait to graduate a semester to take some bullshit like Philosophy I or something.

The school told her there was nothing they could do. She met with deans, dept heads and faculty and they all said there was nothing she could do. Independent study was out of the question and so was a substituting class. She was crying and on the phone with every person in the school pretty much every day. Her parents came and had a formal meeting with the dean. They said they couldn't help.

Two months later, right before classes started, they sent her a nonchalant email saying that a substitute class from a list would be fine and not to worry.

You know what's fucking crazy? Playing the race card as a joke, in an overtly joking way, and having it totally misinterpreted. Some people treat mock offense seriously, like they're covering their bases just in case, and it's the funniest thing.

That's why I always say to any new black person "What up nword? Want to work my cotton farm?" Helps break the ice.

I've asked some Jewish friends to tell me where the gold's hidden. I forget if I asked Pony.

when looking at "cooking tips" and stuff in recipe books do you do the thing where you wonder how said tip works, or if it actually does?

i am trying to think of specifics, but all i am remembering right now is a coffee thing that was all "don't stir it with a metal spoon because it will reduce the temperature too much and it wont extract as well"

and i was all

huh...i don't know if anyone has tested this to see how the thermokinetics of this bear out

It's a thing exclusive to white liberals where they overcompensate for their privilege. It's not a bad thing, in and of itself, but frequently it becomes a thing where the white guilty person starts projecting it onto other people and that gets pretty old.

in seriousness though, what is white guilt?

Is there a difference between white guilt and real racial awareness?

I mean, listen, I know I'm almost a self-parody sometimes with how self-hating I come off, and of course some of that is played up for effect on the internet

and believe me I am under no illusions that I am a super-white motherfucker. Like paper.

But I've also been told by a fair number of PoC that they feel a lot more comfortable talking about race with me than with other white folks, and they're glad they can vent to me without me getting offended

Like I think a lot of more moderate white people have a different impression of what "black people really think" -- i.e. that black folks really don't make such a big deal about all this stuff, it's just self-hating whites that do.

But frankly I don't think there are any whites out there, however progressive or self-hating, who can fully sympathize with the sentiments of a lot of people of color, no matter how hard you try. It's always been my experience that most people of color have some really deep and powerful reservoirs of anger towards the discrimination they experience and towards white people generally.

but, as a white guy, of course I'm not comfortable speaking for people of color or anything. Just in my experience, most people of color I've known have held many opinions that would be considered "extreme" or "irrational" by most whites.

Like if I said "all convictions of people of color are racially motivated," comments like that tend to get received with very little skepticism among non-white people. Partly I think because of context, and people get I'm not saying "no PoC has ever been guilty of a crime" or something like that, but also I think because views really do differ.

when looking at "cooking tips" and stuff in recipe books do you do the thing where you wonder how said tip works, or if it actually does?

i am trying to think of specifics, but all i am remembering right now is a coffee thing that was all "don't stir it with a metal spoon because it will reduce the temperature too much and it wont extract as well"

and i was all

huh...i don't know if anyone has tested this to see how the thermokinetics of this bear out

when looking at "cooking tips" and stuff in recipe books do you do the thing where you wonder how said tip works, or if it actually does?

i am trying to think of specifics, but all i am remembering right now is a coffee thing that was all "don't stir it with a metal spoon because it will reduce the temperature too much and it wont extract as well"

and i was all

huh...i don't know if anyone has tested this to see how the thermokinetics of this bear out

I saw something once saying not to stir yeast with a metal spoon because it'll mess with it.

I wondered if it actually does, but I have a bamboo spoon anyway so I just used that.

I will say that given the low heat capacity of metal I doubt that spoon is capable of doing much to the temperature. It might cause it to drop faster but I doubt it would drop further.

when looking at "cooking tips" and stuff in recipe books do you do the thing where you wonder how said tip works, or if it actually does?

i am trying to think of specifics, but all i am remembering right now is a coffee thing that was all "don't stir it with a metal spoon because it will reduce the temperature too much and it wont extract as well"

and i was all

huh...i don't know if anyone has tested this to see how the thermokinetics of this bear out

I feel like Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies (only 1 and 2) would have been better if they were like...the 1st superhero movies or something. Too much struggling with identity and junk that didn't need to be there

We're off scott free. Fuck, France was a safe-haven around then to the extent it allowed interracial marriage.

There were probably slave owners on my father's side, oddly enough, him being black and all. But there was some white in his family, too, so at least the slaver was friendly.

Well my grandfather was a horrific racist. To the extent I learned a lot of racial slurs at the ripe old age of 8. Honestly I thought the N word was what you normally called black people until I was 27.